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Claudius has made himself a monarch again, standing at the head of a shrieking horde of desperate peasantry who believe he can unbar the door to that heavenly place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Teach me the path to that uncharted land; Discovery's keel hath never notched its strand, No passport may unbar its sealed frontier,— Too far for utmost sight, for touch too near.

From The Two Twilights by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

"Some one is surely in distress," said Shakespeare, rising, "suffer me to unbar the door."

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Uncle Pullet had seen the party from the window, and made haste to unbar and unchain the front door.

From Tom and Maggie Tulliver by Eliot, George

“Why, if this fate my country waits, should war, “And not my love unbar to him the gates?

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.